<div dir="ltr"><div>E != Gnome :-(<br><br></div>E has a reputation for long devel cycles and really good stuff on release. Gnome cranks out stuff ans usually hits date targets and often delivers crap but occasionally hands over a jewel. I need to look at E again. Been a long time.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:54 PM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> WHY? Bad design. HOW? The newly redesigned bonobo-replacement interconnect<br>
> tool is a virtual reed-switched power relay. It chunks a (tiny) wad of data<br>
> around then changes to the next desktop thing to do more. It can't thread<br>
> well or else it will connect to two ends of the needed pipe and setup both<br>
> as sender or receivers and then it goes into a spasm of tear-down/rebuild<br>
> to keep the data flowing. Thus the sound on certain gnome configurations is<br>
> beyond abysmal. And the rest of the performance follows it into the toilet.<br>
> Sad. Looks pretty but runs like a snail. Certain hardware combos are<br>
> particularly bad.<br>
><br>
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</span>The exact problem the Enlightenment group solved before the would even<br>
deign to consider an official release --<br>
<a href="http://docs.enlightenment.org/auto/evas/evas_main.html" target="_blank">http://docs.enlightenment.org/auto/evas/evas_main.html</a><br>
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--<br>
James Sumners<br>
<a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological<br>
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the<br>
corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a<br>
condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
<br>
Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
CH:D 59<br>
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